Aaron the Librarian

The ALA Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP) and the OITP Copyright Advisory Subcommittee awarded the L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award: In Support of Users’ Rights to Prudence S. Adler, Associate Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries, “for her passionate, untiring, and effective advocacy for user’s rights and balance in copyright law.”

Prue helped start of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), to influence federal copyright legislation. Since its inception in 2005, the LCA has taken the lead role in blocking more than a dozen bills that would have gone against the public interest. Some of these include database legislation and the broadcast flag.

Thank you, Prue, for doing the work that I would do if I could